Tetsuro Matsuzawa

Current Position

Professor, Section of Language and Intelligence,
Director, Center for International Collaboration and Advanced Studies
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University
President, the International Primatological Society
General Director, Japan Monkey Centre
Editor-in-chief, PRIMATES
Editorial Board, The Royal Society, Phlosophical Transaction B
Chair, Scientific Program of International Congress of Psychology 2016

Research Summary

Matsuzawa has been studying chimpanzee intelligence both in the laboratory and in the wild. The laboratory work is known as “Ai-project” since 1976. He has also been studying the tool use in the wild chimpanzees at Bossou-Nimba, Guinea, West Africa, since 1986. Matsuzawa tries to synthesize the field and the lab work to understand the nature of chimpanzees. He published journal papers and also the books such as “Primate origins of human cognition and behavior”, “Cognitive development in chimpanzees”, “The chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba”, from Springer. He got several prizes including Prince Chichibu Memorial Award for Science in 1991, Jane Goodall Award in 2001, and The Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2004.